Thurston Holbrook

Thurston Holbrook was a Parliamentarian soldier during the English Civil War. He served in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, seeing his general as a "man amongst men" and believing in his military capabilities. He disagreed with Cromwell's ban on MPs from holding commands, as this meant that Cromwell himself would be removed from command, and he then served under Thomas Fairfax. In 1645, he served as a cavalryman at the Battle of Naseby, where he remained on the battlefield with half of the Parliamentarian cavalry; the other half had fled the field. He then took part in the cavalry counterattack against the Royalist forces as the tide of the battle turned, routing the Royalist cavalry.